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Week of November 29, 2010 Mathematics Seminars

Seminars for the week of November 29, 2010

Colloquium

Thursday, 3:35, in VinH 16

Professor Hoai-Minh Nguyen
of Courant Institute
will speak on
"Some new characterizations of Sobolev spaces and related inequalities"

In this talk, I will introduce some recent characterizations of Sobolev spaces. More precisely, let $$ I_\delta := {\int_{\bf R}^3\int_{\bf R}^d\atop |g(x)-g(y)|>\delta}\ {\delta^p\over |x-y|^{d+p}}\ dxdy . $$ I will show that $g\in W^{1,p}({\bf R}^d)(p>1)$ if and only if $g\in L^p({\bf R}^d)$ and $\liminf_{\delta\to 0_+} I_\delta (g)< +\infty$. I also present variants of the Poincar\'e inequality, the Sobolev inequality, and the Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem, where $\int_{{\bf R}^d} |\nabla_g|^p$ is replaced by some quantity related to $I_\delta (g)$. The case $p = 1$, which is more delicate, will be also discussed.

Monday, 29 Nov 2010

Student Combinatorics Seminar: at 10:05 in VinH 570
Jia Huang will speak on "Cyclic sieving phenomenon on Grassmanians and partial flag varieties"
Junior Colloquium: at 12:20 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Topology Seminar: at 3:30 in VinH 364
... Will not meet this week
Dynamical Systems Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Student Seminar in Symplectic Geometry: at 4:30 in VinH 203B
... Will not meet this week

Tuesday, 30 Nov 2010

IMA Postdoc Seminar: at 11:15 in LindH 305
... Will not meet this week
Math Physics Seminar: at 12:25 in VinH 570
Rob Thompson will speak on "Group foliation and explcit solutions to differential equations"
Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology: at 1:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Student MFM Seminar: at 2:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Applied Mathematics Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 16
... Will not meet this week
Arithmetic Applications of p-Adic Cohomology Seminar: at 3:40 in VinH 570
Professor Steve Sperber will speak on "Estimating the degree of the L-function associated with exponential sums - a continuation"

Wednesday, 1 Dec 2010

Climate Change: at 11:15 in VinH 570
Professor Richard McGehee will speak on "Huyber's glacial cycles model, Part 2"
Working Seminar on Langlands Functoriality: at 1:25 in VinH 20
... Will not meet this week
Student Seminar in Symplectic Geometry: at 3:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
PDE Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 206
Professor Hoai-Minh Nguyen from Courant Institute will speak on "Cloaking via change of variables for the Helmholtz equation"

Thursday, 2 Dec 2010

Math Club Seminar: at 12:10 in VinH 120
Peter Lofgren will speak on "Zero knowledge proofs and anonymous credentials"
Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology: at 1:30 in VinH 570
... Will not meet this week
Colloquium: at 3:30 in VinH 16
Professor Hoai-Minh Nguyen from Courant Institute will speak on "Some new characterizations of Sobolev spaces and related inequalities"

Friday, 3 Dec 2010

Graduate Student Forum Seminar: at 12:20 in VinH 16
... Will not meet this week
Industrial Problems Seminar: at 1:25 in VinH 16
... Will not meet this week
Lie Theory Seminar: at 1:30 in VinH 311
Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "Eisenstein series and L-functions"
Probability Seminar: at 2:30 in VinH 207
Professor Lionel Levine from MIT will speak on "Logarithmic fluctuations from circularity"
Combinatorics Seminar: at 3:35 in VinH 570
Professor Florian Block from University of Michigan will speak on "Computing node polynomials for plane curves"
Automorphic Forms and Number Theory: at 3:35 in VinH 301
Professor Paul Garrett will speak on "Natural self-adjoint operators on representation spaces"
Practitioners' Financial Mathematics Seminar: at 5:30 in VinH 16
Nathan Hubbell and John Renze from Travelers Personal Insurance Research and Development will speak on "Application of generalized linear models to insurance pricing"